A Scrap of Life

Aha... it's 12:16am so it's officially Thanksgiving Day. That means I get to be amongst the first to wish you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We have so much to be thankful for in our life this year. Here's my top 10 "thankful for" list for this year: 1. I'm thankful for heat. It's freaking freezing outside, which makes me thankful for my nice warm house, my nice warm van (thanks to the new thermostat Brian put in yesterday - in the freezing cold I might add), my nice warm bed and my nice warm snuggie . Yes, laugh if you want but my snuggie keeps me happy and warm while your toes are freezing. So there! 2. I'm thankful for friends. This last year or two I've finally put down enough roots in this town to make friends. I've always been a bit solitary but I've found a few great women (you know who you are!) that are at a similar place in their life, who like what I like and who are fun to hang out. I forgot what it's like not to always be "m...

Halloween has come and gone and with it we've ushered in a whole new era of celebration here. To start off with, neither of the boys really got into it. They're sort of graduated from costumes and just took things from previous costumes or from their rooms and just made costumes out of them. Chase started out as a cow, went to a unicorn, then a zookeeper and finally ended up as some sort of skull something or other. I never did figure out exactly what he was. Tristan put on costumes from previous years. He started out as a vampire ninja ghost but dumped the ghost and ended up going as a vampire ninja with chains around his wrists. Again, not sure where that all came from. Carissa was the only one we purchased a costume for. She was Cleopatra this year, beautiful in her gown and crown. The kids really went solo on their pumpkins this year too. They drew and cut on their own with little or no help from us. Brian helped Carissa a bit with all the intricate parts of her des...